Positive thinking, resourcefulness skills, and future anxiety among the caregivers of children with intellectual disability: an intervention study

Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 4 Mean scores of studied variables as reported by caregivers throughout study phases(n = 70)

Items	Pre	Post	Mean difference	% of improvement	Paired t test	p value
Items	mean ± SD		Mean difference	% of improvement	Paired t test	p value
Future anxiety	120.30 ± 10.58	94.04 ± 8.81	− 26.25	21.30%	18.242	< 0.001**
Social resourcefulness	11.15 ± 2.93	12.87 ± 1.67	1.71	23.51%	− 5.925	< 0.001**
Personal resourcefulness	18.82 ± 3.51	22.08 ± 1.43	3.25	22.39%	− 8.269	< 0.001**
Total resourcefulness	29.98 ± 4.78	34.95 ± 2.38	4.97	19.49%	− 9.105	< 0.001**
Positive thinking	14.10 ± 5.11	18.71 ± 2.18	4.61	60.76%	− 7.837	< 0.001**